How to Set up Banner Slider extension in a magento store

What is Banner slider?

Using Banner Slider to advertise is an amazing way to get the results you are looking for. The sources I am using are totally free and the results are incredible for a banner slider. I want to show you how to Set up Banner Slider extension in a magento store to achieve the best advertising results.

Magento banner slider

Banner slider gives you a very attractive position for advertisement. All the banners are placed on the top of the site and easily to be seen with banner slider. So you should base on this feature to get suitable advertising campaign. Although position of banner is good, you need to have the best settings to get the best results. Remember that the average person needs to see an ad 5-7 times before clicking it. 70%+ of the sales are made on the 5th contact.

Why is banner slider important to you? When you set up your banner advertising campaign set it up so it runs for a minimum of 8 days. That’s right your banner must be in rotation for at least 8 days to get the best results, 14 days or two weeks recommended and 21 days for the absolute best results.

Make at least 3 good looking banners. This will create more awareness and your ads will be seen more often, if you have 5 ads rotating they will definitely get more views in a shorter time frame than just one, also the banners being different from each other creates the illusion as if several person are promoting the same product which increases your results even higher.

With the some steps above you will maximize your banner ads results and get more hits, the more hits you get more prospects, more prospects means more potential sales and more sales means more money.

In this tutorial, we use one of the most popular Banner slider extensions for magento: Banner Slider Extension (Free).

Banner slider extension on magento connect

Feature of banner slider extension

For customer

+ Able to see banners as a slider of images on the Homepage or on each category page.

For admin

+ Image can be added/removed from the admin panel with the following informatics: title, url and description